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Architectural Planning and Design Lab
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A lab that plans and designs architecture, from housing to public facilities, from the user's perspective.

AboutAbout the lab
Exploring how to realize spaces where people and the environment permeate each other.
Professor Kenichi Tanoe's lab studies the design and planning of buildings essential to daily life, beginning with housing and including educational, cultural, and healthcare facilities.
From the user's perspective, the lab considers how to realize distinctive, attractive spaces in which people and the environment permeate each other.
Research themes include the design of housing and residential areas, housing planning in developing countries, and user-participatory design methods.
The main goal is to train professionals involved in architectural and community design (survey, concept development, planning, and design).
Key terms
- Informal settlement
- An urban area that has grown outside the framework of formal urban planning, such as a slum
- Inclusive
- An approach that seeks to include diverse people rather than exclude them
- Program
- In architecture, the activities that take place in a facility and the way it is used
ResearchResearch themes
The lab specializes in the design and planning of buildings essential to daily life, beginning with housing and including educational, cultural, and healthcare facilities. From the user's perspective, it studies how to realize spaces in which people and the environment permeate each other.
*Illustrative imageDesign and Management of Housing and Residential Areas
The lab studies the design of housing and residential areas and their operation and management. Topics include the rebuilding of aging housing complexes and their autonomous renewal.
*Illustrative imageHousing Planning in Developing Countries
The lab studies housing planning in developing countries. It covers the improvement of informal settlements and slums, and the examination of how living spaces have modernized in Asia.
*Illustrative imageUser-Participatory Design Methods
The lab studies user-participatory design methods. It deals with participatory planning that puts users at the center, and with inclusive design.
*Illustrative imageArchitectural Planning for Public Facilities
The lab studies architectural planning for public facilities. It covers the planning of housing and residential areas as well as next-generation educational, healthcare, and community facilities, focusing on facility programs and how they interlink.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorKenichi Tanoe
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Social housing in Ilulissat, Greenland” Vincent van Zeijst / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Design and Management of Housing and Residential Areas: “Semi detached houses on Summerfield Drive - geograph.org.uk - 4840327” Stephen Craven / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Housing Planning in Developing Countries: “Vusumuzi Informal Settlement, Tembisa” Basetsana M / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- User-Participatory Design Methods: “Scale Architectural Model of a Mario Kleff Design 01” Designer Mario Kleff / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Architectural Planning for Public Facilities: “Sherwood Public Library Interior 2022” Simon Tsu / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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